In fin de siècle Paris, Dr. Georges Bonnet (Anton Diffring) sculpts by day and murders women at night. Though he looks 40, this debonair scientist is actually 104 years old, kept youthful by an elixir he concocts from the glands of the dead women. Struggling to maintain his youth, Bonnet begins a descent into madness that threatens to destroy the laws of nature and the lives of those he lusts after. Only ethical surgeon Pierre Gerard (Christopher Lee) can stop Bonnet's unholy quest before it claims the life of the woman (Hazel Court) that both men desire. This 1959 horror classic from Hammer Studios is graced with a terrific soundtrack from three-time Academy Award nominee Richard Rodney Bennett.